What Happened in October 1883

Historical Events

Oct 4 The Orient Express departs on its first official journey from Paris to Istanbul

Oct 4 First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
Oct 15 US Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional
Oct 20 Max Bruch's "Kol Nidre" 1st performed
Oct 20 Treaty of Ancon; Peru cedes Tarapaca to Chile
Oct 22 1st NY Horse Show held (Madison Sq Garden)
Oct 22 New York's original Metropolitan Opera House has its grand opening with a performance of Charles Gounod's opera "Faust"
Oct 30 Austria-Hungary, Germany and Romania sign military treaty

Oct 5 Charles Maduro, Antillean composer, born in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles (d. 1947)
Oct 8 Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician (Nobel-1931), born in Freiburg, Baden, Germany (d. 1970)
Oct 8 Dick Burnett, American musician ("Man of Constant Sorrow"), born in Monticello, Kentucky (d. 1977)
Oct 11 Archibald T Davison, American musicologist and composer, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1961)
Oct 16 Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek actress (The Exorcist), born in Athens, Greece (d. 1973)
Oct 16 Will Harridge, American Baseball HOF executive (President American League 1931-59), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1971)
Oct 22 Adolph Joffe, Russian Communist revolutionary and writer (Brest-Litovsk), born in Simferopol, Russian Empire (d. 1927)
Oct 22 Viktor Jacobi, composer
Oct 26 Napoleon Hill, American writer and philosopher (Think and Grow Rich), born in Pound, Virginia (d. 1970)
Oct 26 Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (Olympic gold 1904, 06), born in NYC, New York (d. 1958)
Oct 31 Marie Laurencin, French painter, born in Paris (d. 1956)

Oct 31 Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player (Wimbledon 1910-13), born in Christchurch, New Zealand (d. 1915)

Oct 2 Joshua Ratoon Sands, American Rear Admiral (Union Navy), dies at 88
Oct 15 Francesco Schira, Maltese-born composer, dies at 74
Oct 22 George Coulthard, Australian rules footballer (Victoria; Carlton FC) and cricket all-rounder (1 Test; Victoria CA), dies from tuberculosis at 27
Oct 22 Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (The Headless Horseman), dies at 65
Oct 29 Friedrich Robert Volkmann, German composer, dies at 68
Oct 30 Johann Vesque von Püttlingen, Austrian lawyer and composer, dies at 80
Oct 31 Swami Dayananda Saraswati, founder of Arya Samaj